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Ever watch a train wreck in slow motion?

Principal Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Verizon for less than 1 year
March 11, 2011
Ashburn, Virginia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Huge company. Good benefits.

If you want to hunker down in a massive company and get by on a half-hearted effort, you can do it here. Lots of corporate robots just hunkered down counting the days to retirement.

If you are into that kind of thing, this place is great.

Cons

Leadership has never been a strong point at Verizon. The latest leadership shakeup just made things a whole lot worse, especially on the Wireline (Telco & Business) side. It's a disaster. The top leaders are absolutely empty suits who are getting nothing done. The whole company is literally grinding to a standstill while they fail to communicate anything about direction or vision. The latest acquisition? We all read about it in the news. Great employees are tired of it and leaving. The robots who like hiding in the cubes are the ones who are staying.

Advice to Management

All of them should leave the company immediately. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

You are not leading. You are sitting around doing nothing.

It is so hard to believe if I was not witnessing it with my own eyes.

You all have parachute packages. Use them.

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